Redis Internals: Redis Processes a Command
Dictionary structure, key eviction, hash table resize and rehash, and command executionPhoto by Ryland Dean on UnsplashBy now, I’ve already considered how Redis server starts up, how clients connect to it, and how Redis reads their commands and writes responses — both in a single-threaded and I/O threaded mode. Finally, I’ve made my
Read moreNo, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth
In the latest example of a startup getting caught while taking Silicon Valley’s “fake it until you make it” ethos far beyond the realm of ethics, events planning app IRL was recently sued by its own investor, SoftBank, after an investigation revealed that 95% of the app’s users were fake.
Read moreBringing VR to IRL classrooms with Anurupa Ganguly of Prisms
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. On this week’s episode of Found, Becca and Dom are joined by Anurupa Ganguly, the founder at CEO at Prisms, a startup designing VR math curricula for middle and high school students. Ganguly talked about how her time
Read moreSnapchat’s dark mode for Android no longer locked behind subscription
Snapchat has quietly dropped the paywall for dark mode on Android after previously requiring users to have a Snapchat+ subscription to access the feature. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday that dark mode is now available to all users. The change was first spotted by Android Police. Dark mode
Read moreMöbius transformations over a finite field
A Möbius transformation is a function of the form where ad – bc = 1. We usually think of z as a complex number, but it doesn’t have to be. We could define Möbius transformations in any context where we can multiply, add, and divide, i.e. over any field. In
Read moreIt’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how
Read moreSimon Data is putting customer data to work with $54M Series D
The customer data platform (CDP) has become a standard way to collect first party customer data and put it to work. Simon Data, which was founded in 2015, has always had a vision of being more than purely a customer data repository. It also offers applications out of the box
Read moreGreenlight’s new credit card helps teens, their parents build credit together
Greenlight Financial Technology has long provided financial education and debit cards to its child and teen customers since 2014; however, today the company launched the Greenlight Family Cash Mastercard to help those same customers build their credit before they reach adulthood. Parents add their teens as authorized users of the
Read moreCatch+Release raises $8M to help brands discover and license user-generated content
Companies seeking images or videos for their materials materials will typically commission a shoot, or scour stock media catalogs. Catch+Release, however, wants to help marketers license existing user-generated content, and the eight-year-old startup is setting out to build an AI-powered search engine to help brands do just that. Catch+Release —
Read moreFlower lands $3.6M to grow its platform for federated learning
The reliance on public data — mostly web data — to train AI is holding back the AI field. That’s according to Daniel Beutel, a tech entrepreneur and researcher at the University of Cambridge, who co-founded a startup, Flower, to solve what he sees as a growing problem in AI
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